The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-16
OBITUARY..


BRADSHAW-"Sweety fell asleep in Jesus . at
the residence of her soninaw DR.. j. R. Hussey. 264
North Tennessee street, this city Jan. 8, 1887 at
Ills p NJ. Mrs Margaret Bradshaw. widow of Will
lam Bradshaw. Esq, aged eighty seven years and
twenty-one days.
The years which have given the subject of this no.
tice of glory have been filled with incidents
and an experience which have made character re-
markable for its quiet. unobtrusive worth such
we do not find any to excel and worthy for ill to
emulate
She was born in Long Glade. in Augusta county,
Virginia. Her father, Martin L. Coyner was Of Ger.
| man descent, andwas born Carlisle, Pa butre-
moved to the valley Of Virginia ct an early age Her
mother Elizabeth Rhea was Of Scotch Irish descent
was born IN North Carolina, and was niece Of Gov.
ernor Rhea of that State The deceased was one Of
a large family, Of whom Only survives the Rev.
David H. Coyner, of Delaware county, Ohio. She
was educated at the Augusta Female Seminary, at
Staunton Va and was equally noted amongst her
early friends and associates for her great personal
beauty, her vivacity and popularity.
i She was reared in opulence but when her husband
thought best to emgrate west of the Aleghenes she
/ cheerfuIy determined to share with him the hard
ships of pioneer life. In June. 1885, she left the
valley of Virginia, with her little family and after
bank of VIZ river in this city That was more than
fifty years ago, and all tn hardships surrounding
life here a. that time have been experienced by many
others. who yet live to testify to their rigid trials.
The "puncheon floor" the ungszed windows and the
oneroom cabin were, as she often expressed it in
dreadful with the old stone assion Of her
father The hard manual labor equally SO to one
who had been reared and petted by colored Uncle
| Tom and Aunt Fanny" Yet she wrought on, and
| planned on. and with her own hands made garments
for her sturdy and Industrious sons her husband hav
| ing been an invalid nearly all his ife could do but
little except to advise and furnish an example Of
cry and great integrity for which he so noted.
For the last quarter of century she has reaped the
reward Of those earlier prvatons and has been in the
enjoyment Of every comfort that lial affection could
| devise The interregnum Of hardships incident to
| pioneer life only served to make more prominent
those noble traits of character which otherwise might
| have partially remained dormant.
| The deceased was a member Of the First Presby
terrain Church of Indianapolis. and had been q mem
Der OF that sect for sixty Her religion
| was unobtrusive in worlds there refined mod
esty in all her Christian department. which vauntsth
not, was not pulled up, behaveth not unssemly.'
Her generosity equally unestentatious but te
give was her greatest pleasure and from her the
needy never went empty One Of her most attractive
| characteristics her childlike candor and frank
moss; utterly void of any mask which would put te
shame much of the ostentation Of the pre4ent day
| Mrs. Bradshaw was the mother of Captain James NJ.
William A: and John r. Bradshaw, and Mrs. Mary b
Hussey. wife of Dr.. j. R. Hussey. all Of this city.
'She rests from her labors, and her works do fol
| low her."
| INDIANAPOLIS. JEL.